Last updated September 20, 2011. Created by zirvap on May 3, 2008.
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This section includes information regarding resources for internationalization (apart from translation).
Right to left support
If you want a website with right-to-left text direction, you'll need a theme which supports this, like the core theme Garland for 6.x, or Garland BIDI for 5.x. For more RTL themes, look at the theme download page.
Other internationalization challenges
There are numerous other challenges when creating websites for a specific part of the world or language group, like date formats, alphabetic sort of special characters, currencies, and tax calculations. See the links below for places to look for more information, and please add a sub page if you have something to share.
Read more:
- Localization API (translation and localization information for developers)
- Translation support forum
- Troubleshooting
- List of support sites in various languages
- groups.drupal.org - Internationalization (for content translation and other internationalization issues)
- groups.drupal.org - Translation (for interface translation)
- Translation mailing list
- groups.drupal.org - Various groups for specific geographical areas (some groups for specific languages are listed under "Working groups", not "Geographical")
Comments
Drupal 7 ?
I'm using Drupal 7 and want to use the core language capabilities to do a site offering English and Spanish content. Some aspects of this are working great, but I cannot seem to switch from one language to the other, other than on a node by node basis. Is this a problem with D.7? Is there documentation discussion languages in D.7? (What I'm finding here seems to stop at D.6.)
This documentation could use more info on how to implement language switching, rather than just content translation. (What good is the latter if one cannot do the former?)
is there an answer to this?
I installed D7 yesterday and am confronted with this challange as well?
What is the solution?
language switch problem in dropal 7
Helllo Friends,
I develop a demo website in my local computer in two different-2 languages and its work fine but at the time of language switch i have problem. my website in en and fr. en is my default language. when i create basic page in (aboutus) in en language and translate it fr. now i can switch language from index page but when i go to aboutus(en) page and now i want to see same page in fr language my language switcher is do not provide me the click able link in fr language but i can change language from index page
index page language switcher situation as like
*English
*French
(Both click able)
aboutus pagein en language, language switcher situation as like
*English
*-F-r-e-n-c-h- (strikeout not click able )
now i am not able to click on french link can any one ask me where is the problem? and what is the solution of my problem?
I am using drupal 7 and external language switcher module..
Duplicate documentation
This seems to be a duplicate of the Working with languages handbook. If you are trying to figure out multilingual websites, perhaps you should start with this first. (Now updated for Drupal 7).
Meanwhile, an issue has been filed in the Docs Team issue queue to propose a merge between the various pages on this topic. Feel free to discuss it there.
How to for multilingual site with shared files
After browsing through drupal.org for more than three hours: Could someone please scribble together a how to with the proper setup of a multilingual site with subdomains (one per language) and shared files?
Obviously it neither works to make a multisite setup (sites/en.domain.tld, sites/fr.domain.tld ...), and
$conf['i18n_variables'] = array('file_directory_path',
);
Thank you!
Kefk | CineDat | Fotonexus | Encycan | Encymus | Taxidi
Book page issue
Drupal 7.10
I have a three languages site, since now all was well, but I'm including a book version of some documentation and here is the problem I get:
I create a book page (let's call it BOOK1) and give it the status of "new book", defining one of the languages for this content, then when addign a child page, this child one does not get included in the BOOK1 (actually some times the BOOK1 does not appears as an option at the "book outline") , so I edit it to add manually the child page to the BOOK1, at this moment BOOK1 does appears as an option in the "book outline", I select it, but in the "parent item" appears nothing to select, I save it anyway, then this error comes: "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator", and the "book outline" appears highlighted.
The only way I can add child pages to BOOK1 is changing its language to "neutral language".
Could this be a bug?
@ch
@asb, @Andrés Chandía: Your
@asb, @Andrés Chandía: Your requests would have a better chance to be answered in the support forum (http://drupal.org/forum/22) or on IRC, though, since this is a documentation-only page (perhaps "Other Internationalization Issues" is a misleading title). If not familiar with it yet, you can find more information on how to setup and use these Channels on drupal.org/community.
@Andrés Chandía: i have forwarded this to the documentation issue queue, under "missing documentation".
http://drupal.org/node/1370206
@asb: give it a try in the drupal 7.x book module issue queue. Perhaps a similar problem has been discussed? (Example concerning a contributed module here)
Book page issue
Thanks, I'll do check your advised documentation.
@ch
D6
@sylvain_a: Thanks, but I'm not even using D7, and usually nobody responds to D6 core issues anymore.
Kefk | CineDat | Fotonexus | Encycan | Encymus | Taxidi